Well there is that Hasbro fired all of the Wotc team that helped Larian make BG3.

Kind of makes you salty.

They were lamenting that all of the team at Hasbro-Wotc that they worked with on BG3 was laid off.

Not that Hasbro caused layoffs at Larian.

I don’t think we’re going to get the dos2 level of tools, simply because it would become a competitor to wotc’s fabulous virtual tabletop microtransaction simulator.

It’s nice to hope though, with you on that.

Somewhat unexpectedly as its a free to play live service game and is notoriously grindy.

Warframe.

Last year was fire for them, they’ve got:
• cross platform play and save up
• a string of great updates
• working on reducing the overly grindy bits.
• its less pay to win now as the best weapons are purely behind gameplay.
• released an iphone version of the game and are working on an android one, I believe both are intended to be attached to the rest of the player base.

You can play a few matches(sub-30 minutes, usually sub 15) in a session and that’s fine. You don’t need any of the Prime warframes to do any content.

Nah, that’s her kinda bad ending. They cut the good good ending.
There is another ending for her involving the upper city(cut at the last minute due to performance issues) and I suspect the purified metal you get at the factory that involves her staying.

This. If you like the mechanics of bg3, go play Divinity Original Sin 2. It has a lot of the same enhancements that Larian added to dnd for BG3. Including more comprehensive elemental fields and height mechanics.

And it has a great modding community.

The sad part about Larian and BG3 is I was hoping for a definitive edition that gave Karlach her good ending.

Yeah, I mean whose going to steal popular content off of twitch and youtube, and then post it in a horrible bitrate with the wrong orientation.

Yes, but I was never under the impression that SMS was secure, and have never heard anyone say it was secure.

What it was, was cheap, designed to be free, effective and difficult to monetize.

Google RCS is proprietary and designed to sell your data as well as deliver targeted ads to you that you cannot block.

The weird thing is that so many people are buying into the Google and Apple marketing on SMS being insecure.

If you’re on an unroooted smartphone running stock OS, nothing you do is secure

The trick is that they’re literally spamming papers at this point.

It has been published, but a staggering number of scientific “papers” coming out of China are turning out to be complete fabrications.

Kbin, literally haven’t seen any spam, seen lots about how the fediverse Admins are taking care of it.

So, thank you mods and admins.

Blizzard ceased being Blizzard roughly in the span of the dev of the 1st and 2nd expansions to Wow. That’s when the core of the original Blizzard left.

And then remade Diablo 1 and 2 as Torchlight 1 and 2.

In short, at 7th to 9th level spells shit get stupid really fast.

In any case, the sweet spot of the 5th edition ruleset(which Larian vastly improved upon) is levels 5 to 10. Under that and you’re too squishy, over that and you start getting into the plane shifting and just outright death spells.

Question from someone who plays warframe.

They do their prime bundles for a decent chunk of money. But it’s also a really good deal just for the paid currency.
And you can get the same things in game for free.
So how much is the actual item vs the currency?

The one I saw yesterday stated that it was “dnd” and that it was offered to Larian, but they didn’t have the money, so Tencent stepped in.

I imagine it’s the video game rights. Even Hasbro couldn’t be stupid enough to sell off the whole thing.

You mention the trick yourself.

AI can augment a real actor and script. Not replace.

Skyrim has mods that add AI voice to non voiced mod NPCs or lines. Works great. But its only augmenting what is already there.

A new protest and shutdown would be to get it into the media eye in a bad light. Not actually do anything of importance to the site.

After all, the 24 hour news cycle lives on scandals.

Because he actually plays and enjoys games.

He’s not just another mba “strip mine the user base for money” fucker.

Don’t forget how he abandoned PC gaming when Unreal Tournament 3 bombed after they released shitty mid tools and the modding community they built up over UT 2k3 and 2k4 dissolved.

The problem is that the spice and flavour of Skyrim was not using the fast travel and just exploring.

With modding to add random encounters and roaming friendlies/neutral mobs, Fallout 4 was great too. Even more so recently with the flyable vertibirds so that you could get the in-game fast travel that used resources.

But neither of those can exist in a game where fast travel is a core and unavoidable gameplay mechanic.

All good, just explaining briefly what it did and what valve called it.

One of the defining concepts in the game was the “director”, an overarching map managing system that kept the desired pacing of the game in real time.

laughs at Sony because of the inevitable patent challenge from Valve via Left 4 Dead.

The trick is that they want paid mods so they can do nothing and get a decade of profit. Consider that many of the mods on Nexus have millions of unique downloads.

Even if they charge 3 bucks a mod and get a third of it, that’s tens of millions of dollars with zero effort on their part.

But the primary issue is that the current modding framework they’re pushing onto Skyrim doesn’t support framework mods, so none of the big mods Skyrim is known for, and have kept it alive so long, could happen.

Well clearly Google knows. Or is at least pretending to know.

There is a tweet that determined of its three hour runtime, 45 minutes was actual awards.

Play the new Warframe update until then. Its got some trippy maps coming.

Pokemon has at least two fantastic wikis.

Adding as a reply to make a list:

Baldurs Gate 3 official + fan wiki is not Fandom. The Fandom one literally copies stuff off of that one.

Warframe has a community run wiki that is very in depth and abides by in-game spoilers. It is hosted on Fandom though.

Amusing that the article gets the response of the first review wrong.

The negative review doesn’t only mention that the empty planets are boring, but that the populated ones are the same locations over and over again.

As I understand it: the main issue with fallout 4 from a modding pov is that they reworked the entire engine twice between FONV and FO4. Once for Skyrim, which made it much easier to make mods, and then again for FO4 which made modding some things much harder, if not impossible without workarounds.

They had a working beta/demo of a final fantasy tactics style sequel to DOS2. Played it at a PAX before they announced BG3. Even got a lanyard for it.

Their previous game, Divinity Original Sin 2, had a re-release called the Definitive Edition that was free to owners of the original launch.

They also, near the end of the game’s life, officially included a selection of community mods as optional content.

Is a great game, not as good as BG3, but absolutely worth a look to see what they’ve done before. The DE re-release also has people’s hopes up for BG3 getting the same treatment.

Personally it has more to do with the infection of MBAs into AAA game dev space than the old guard retiring.

Yes, but it took until an old white British guy codified in the early 1930s for the living tree doctrine to be a thing.

And it was hard-coded in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms by Pierre Trudeau. It’s the primary reason why the Canadian fight for marriage equality was so open and shut compared to what the US is still going through.

This is why it is bad that this is happening in the US.

You don’t have the concept of the living tree doctrine in your body of law, or if you do, it’s not particularly well developed. It’s all about the writers intent down there.

Morrowind was utterly amazing and set up bars that are still being look at two decades later.

For starters, only the Rimworld engine gets close to how moddable the creation engine is. It truly is a masterpiece of design.

Then, as cheesy as it is, for an Open world sandbox RPG with a quest line.

But they’ve been riding that gravy train for 20 years too, and all they really did was jam in graphical improvements, add increasingly barebones action elements(sword/gunplay) and rip out RPG elements.

US’s debt to GDP ratio has decreased by 13% since 2019. To 77%.

China’s real debt to GDP ratio is estimated to be 335%. (Via the IIF via the SCMP)

Because China is increasingly looking broke, so daddy Tencent’s purse is tightening.

On top of that, the world’s banks now have interest rates to look after again, so their free money streams have ended too. Meaning that companies have to prove their profitability.

But the rich want to keep their free money train going, so we’re all paying now.